Meghan Markle accuses Buckingham Palace of racism after split with Royal family

Markle married Prince Harry and thus joined the British royal family in 2018, but during the interview she confessed that it was so stressful she had contemplated suicide.

The interview aired on CBS on Sunday night, transmitted from Los Angeles CA where the couple now live after having migrated in order to distance themselves from Buckingham Palace.

"I will say I went into it naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family," said Markle in the interview.

"It was only once we were married and everything started to really worsen that I came to understand that not only was I not being protected but that they were willing to lie to protect other members of the family," Markle said.

"There’s the family and then there’s the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it’s important to be able to compartmentalise that because the queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me."

However, Markle during the interview claimed that in general, the atmosphere one of bullying and covert racism, and that she repeatedly had run-ins with various people at the Palace.

"They didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn’t going to receive security."

"In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, 'you won’t be given security, not gonna be given a title' and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born."

Buckingham Palace officials have not directly commented on the issue, but did say that they were "very concerned" and said they would look into the alleged bullying.